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- Christie Brinkley’s daughter Sailor Brinkley Cook channeled her mom’s iconic 1977 cover ofCosmopolitanin a series of sultry bikini snaps
- The 27-year-old sported a similar strappy swimsuit
- Brinkley has previously said that the cover “caused a stir” due to the bikini style
Sailor Brinkley Cook is channeling her supermodel mom.
On Monday, Jan. 19, the 27-year-old shared an
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carousel from a recent beach trip, featuring snaps of her posing in barely there bikinis against the tropical setting.
In a couple of the photos, she sports a royal-blue strappy swimsuit that emulates the purple number that Christie Brinkley wore on the cover ofCosmopolitanin 1977. Sailor also posed in a lime green bikini.
Christie, 71, has previously opened up about the iconic magazine moment. In 2020, the model and entrepreneur revealed the backstory behind the June 1977Cosmopolitancover on
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.
“In 1977 this bathing suit caused a stir! At the time all the bikinis were low slung on the hip,” she wrote. “This high leg cut leg made the hip a new erogenous zone.”
Christie, who was 23 at the time, wore a Norma Kamali iridescent purple halter bikini top with a sweetheart-style neckline and a connecting high-cut ruched bottom.
“I couldn’t figure out how to put it on as just one string holds it all together!” she said of the suit.
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Brinkley also admitted that she had some insecurities about the photo given that there was no “retouching back then.”
“I remember (I) was worried that I looked fat,” she said. “I’m so glad that today our industry appreciates all shapes and sizes so we can just focus on being healthy. Not cookie cutter. Still there is something in some young girls that often makes them feel they just don’t measure up. I was one of them.”
She continued: “I look back at these and think that worry was such a waste of time. If only the perspective we gain with age that elevates the worries could be absorbed by the younger generation but I do think shifting the focus to feeling great is a great step in the right direction. Just thinking out loud as I sift thru a few photos.”
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Sailor has spoken about her own body image struggles. In 2017, Christie posed alongside Sailor and her other daughter, Alexa Ray Joel, for theSports Illustrated Swimsuitissue.
“I’ve had issues with my body image since before I can even remember,” Sailor
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at the time. “I grew up not loving how I looked and felt held back because of it … I don’t need to be a size 0 to believe in myself. My body carries me each and every day, it loves the people I love, it holds what makes me healthy and strong, it bends it shakes it runs and it CHANGES.
That is okay and that is beautiful…As a growing young woman SI showed me all bodies are different and all bodies are worthy of celebrating. Thank you thank you @si_swimsuit for celebrating my beautiful mama, my beautiful sister, I, and ALL WOMEN!!”
